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To: Ilaine who wrote (78005)	2/27/2003 11:12:32 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Hi CB... The rant you responded to (as opposed to the other rants) wasn’t directed at the administration. It was one of a group inspired by a post, directed at me, that I thought bordered on insult, and by a blog-quote that summarized a large number of the vacuous inanities circulating around the Iraq issue. You’ve known me (in the SI sense) a long time, longer than anyone here by a wide margin, and you know my style. I don’t actually fray all that easily, but there’s a limit to my tolerance for shallow thought. I think posts through to some extent, and I expect similar courtesy from those who post to me. If the thought-to-post ratio was a little higher, there would be a lot fewer posts, and that I think would be good for everyone. However, if we’re talking about the administration, there are a few things I can say… foreign policy never was a big ticket item in the US. I thought it became one on 9/11/01. On any given day, the President has an awful lot on his plate, from judicial nominations to the economy to education (his real love) to every othet God-damned thing you can imagine. Not asking you to feel sorry for him, the buck stops there. Well, maybe. I know that what’s happening here is little stuff. It just seems to me that if it’s worth sending a couple thousand soldiers into harm’s way, it’s worth taking the time to get the cover story straight. I don’t, frankly, think Bush knew anything about this; it was a staff-level thing. They didn’t have to know much. All they had to know was that leaked comments from the Pentagon had created a controversy, and that clarification would surely be sought at the next press conference. How much time does it take to pick up the phone and ask for a quick briefing? These people are responsible for making the official statements for the most powerful nation in the world, for chrissake, they can’t afford to have their heads up their butts. Incompetence at that level is not reassuring. Maybe they aren’t assholes (I didn’t call them that), but at this stage I’d rather have an asshole that knows his shit (think Nixon) than a nice guy who doesn’t. sr@rantsRus.com